BOCCACCIO, Giovanni (1313-1375). Genealogiae deorum . - De montibus, silvis, fontibus [etc.]. Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 23 February 1494-95. Super-chancery 2° (311 x 215mm). Collation: a-t 8 u 1 0 (a1r title, a1v table of contents, a6r preface, a7v woodcut genealogical tree, a8r book 1, p4v tabula, r4v De montibus, etc , u10r register, colophon and printer's mark, u10v blank). 162 leaves. 62 lines and headline, table in 3 columns. Type: 1:74G, 2:130G, 3:62G, 4:92G, 5:80R, 6:105R, 7:82G, 8:102G, 10:57G. Woodcut ornamental initials from 2 sets, 13 full-page woodcut genealogical trees, printer's mark. (Dampstained, first and last leaves torn and repaired with some loss, minor worming in final quires just touching text, mended in some leaves.) Modern half calf blindstamped in a 15th-century style, retaining the original(?) front wooden board (wormed), 3 (of 4) clasps on front cover (missing on lower cover). Fourth edition of the full text, but the first to contain the full-page woodcut diagrams illustrating the genealogy of the pagan gods. The woodcuts were next used in a reprint of the Locatellus edition which appeared in 1497 printed by Manfredus de Bonellis. HC *3321; GW 4478; BMC V, 444 (IB. 22904); Goff B-753; Essling 799; Sander 1077.
BOCCACCIO, Giovanni (1313-1375). Genealogiae deorum . - De montibus, silvis, fontibus [etc.]. Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 23 February 1494-95. Super-chancery 2° (311 x 215mm). Collation: a-t 8 u 1 0 (a1r title, a1v table of contents, a6r preface, a7v woodcut genealogical tree, a8r book 1, p4v tabula, r4v De montibus, etc , u10r register, colophon and printer's mark, u10v blank). 162 leaves. 62 lines and headline, table in 3 columns. Type: 1:74G, 2:130G, 3:62G, 4:92G, 5:80R, 6:105R, 7:82G, 8:102G, 10:57G. Woodcut ornamental initials from 2 sets, 13 full-page woodcut genealogical trees, printer's mark. (Dampstained, first and last leaves torn and repaired with some loss, minor worming in final quires just touching text, mended in some leaves.) Modern half calf blindstamped in a 15th-century style, retaining the original(?) front wooden board (wormed), 3 (of 4) clasps on front cover (missing on lower cover). Fourth edition of the full text, but the first to contain the full-page woodcut diagrams illustrating the genealogy of the pagan gods. The woodcuts were next used in a reprint of the Locatellus edition which appeared in 1497 printed by Manfredus de Bonellis. HC *3321; GW 4478; BMC V, 444 (IB. 22904); Goff B-753; Essling 799; Sander 1077.
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